Nothing tidy or particularly ideological about my world twobyfour. I take offense at the quickness to condemn a modern advance that increases opportunity, but extracts a price out of a traditional structure. As both sides, like to say, “it’s the Opportunity Stupid” – not the Equality. But opportunity at what cost? Fewer like to say. As a poster wrote above or elsewhere, a failure of progressive thought is that all change is free of cost. (I would add conservative thought as well if you include free market economics which is the driver of Change.) Out problem now is that we haven’t got everything valued by market metrics – the family as part of The Commons – no dollar sign on that yet.

I don’t find the decline of the family argument that rises on occasion on this board to be persuasive.

Either at the extremes or anywhere along the spectrum.

But it’s not a hill I will stand on at this point or in this forum. Just an opinion that duplicity underlies persistence of the theme.